Re: Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

2009-10-28 Thread Susan Cragin
Wine has its advocates, and I'm one of them. It's good if you want to run ONE BIG application, and run it fast, and you know the limitations of wine. I run Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I've given speed and accuracy demonstrations to Dragon's developers, and they said "Wow." The program doesn't run per

Re: Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

2009-10-28 Thread beejunk
On Oct 28, 2009 5:53am, aYo Binitie wrote: I never use Wine - if you really need Windows software run it in VitualBox running windows. The truth is that most Windows users are bound to habit and really expect Windowlike behaviour from a different OS. I found the differences in using Ubuntu

Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

2009-10-28 Thread aYo Binitie
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Viktor Mastoridis wrote: > I love it towards the end when he says something like "No one on ubuntu >> should ever type code in a terminal" :) >> > > Yes, but also the Wine thing: wine? too complicated, I wouldn't bother. But > the then one guy in the comments says:

Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

2009-10-28 Thread Viktor Mastoridis
> > I love it towards the end when he says something like "No one on ubuntu > should ever type code in a terminal" :) > Yes, but also the Wine thing: wine? too complicated, I wouldn't bother. But the then one guy in the comments says: how much time do you guys spend on finding, downloading, instal

Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

2009-10-27 Thread Q
Viktor Mastoridis wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/10/24_hours_with_ubuntu.html > > I thought I share this with you guys. It was on the BBC main page today. > > Started as announcing Ubuntu's new release (9.10) on BBC, but